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Pages in category "Canadian Army generals of World War II" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Guy was born in Ixworth, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England on April 24, 1903. [7]Simonds came from a military family: his great-grandfather had been in the army of the Honourable East India Company, his grandfather had been a major-general in the British Indian Army and his father an officer in the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery.
General Henry Duncan Graham Crerar CH, CB, , DSO, CD, PC (28 April 1888 – 1 April 1965) was a senior officer of the Canadian Army who became the country's senior field commander in the Second World War as commander of the First Canadian Army in the campaign in North West Europe in 1944–1945, having rapidly risen in rank from brigadier in 1939 to that of a full general in 1944.
Canadian Army generals of World War II (45 P) Canadian Forces Air Command generals (40 P, 1 F) ... John Adams (Canadian general) Donald Agnew; D. Craig Aitchison;
Major General Bertram Meryl Hoffmeister, OC, CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, ED (15 May 1907 – 4 December 1999) was a Canadian Army officer, businessman, and conservationist. He served with distinction during the last two years of the Second World War, becoming, in Jack Granatstein's words, "the best Canadian fighting general of the war", [2] rising from captain and a company commander in 1939 to ...
Keller was made a major-general and, between September 8, 1942, and August 8, 1944, he served as General Officer Commanding the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. Major-General Keller was popular with his troops, who appreciated his manners and outspoken language; however, a drinking problem and several breaches of security measures before D-Day ...
Major General John Meredith Rockingham, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, ED, CD (24 August 1911 – 7 July 1987), nicknamed "Rocky," was an Australian-Canadian senior military officer who fought with the Canadian Army in World War II and the Korean War. [2]
From June 1945 to May 1946 Vokes was the General Officer Commanding the Canadian Army Occupation Force in Europe. Returning to Canada, he commanded the Canadian Army's Central Command and then Western Command. He retired to Oakville, Ontario in 1959 and in 1985 published his memoirs, My Story. [9] He died of cancer on 27 March 1985, aged 80. [4]